Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Ehrien]

We expect that the players most likely to experience a significant increase in ping times will be those in Europe playing on an NA data center World. We will be working hard to minimize the anticipated increases, but there is the chance that based on their location, some players may be more severely affected by this relocation than others.[/INDENT]

Hello, I'm currently playing from Tahiti, French Polynesia on Primal and this is kinda bugging me of.
I just pinged the Primal Data Center and got an ~210ms ping, what can this relocation can mean from us, playing from French Polynesia ?
Will I be still able to play on Primal without too much lag ?

From what I know, we are directly connected to Hawaii thanks to Honotua' cable

[MiniTofu]

Most latency are caused by the routing through Level3. If they can avoid that.

[Sargent]

We expect that the players most likely to experience a significant increase in ping times will be those in Europe playing on an NA data center World. We will be working hard to minimize the anticipated increases, but there is the chance that based on their location, some players may be more severely affected by this relocation than others.

As an EU player who stayed on Excal after the establishment of the EU data centres, I want to know how badly this affects us. While I understand you cannot disclose the new location yet, even a general location (East/West Coast for instance) would be great.

[Warheart777]

Thank you!!! Great news!

Hopefully they are in the USA. Hopefully NE US doesn't have to go through Level 3 right before hitting the FFXIV servers in Montreal anymore.

[Matrinka]

I'm more than happy with this move. I'm glad to see some money going back into it. Hopefully this bodes very well for the future.

[Vespar]

Thank you for the heads up! Can't wait for this and Stormblood

[Naria]

When my partner and I have been discussing the move the cities we kept coming back to were Chicago and Austin since they are fairly central between the two coasts. Level3 was recently acquired by Century Link which is building its own fiber network so maybe in coordination with that we will start to see an improvement through Level3? maybe. please. don't burst my bubble.

[WarbossGrim]

I hope the new datacenter is somewhere central rather than on one coast or the other. League of Legends is operating their servers out of Chicago, and that game is even more latency sensitive than FF14 and has to deal with a lot more throughput.

I have a bad feeling that since they aren't going to reveal anything abou tthe new servers "for security reasons", that they're just going to move it to the West Coast and screw half the continent with garbage ping times, though.

[Vanitas]

Makin NA great again.

[Amiral_Benson]

From France (ISP: Numericable Optical Fiber, FTTLa)

My ping to current Primal Datacenter in Montréal: 109ms (+-2ms)

My Ping to Los Angeles: 172ms (+-3ms)
My Ping to San Francisco: 165 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to Dallas: 139ms (+-3ms)
My Ping to Chicago: 126 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to Atlanta: 119 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to New-York: 104 ms (+-3ms)


I hope it's not beyond Dallas. A central point would make lots of sense.